FEMA Public Assistance · Louisiana

Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation

Electric distribution cooperative · Louisiana

Total federal obligated
$55,709,518
Federal share of eligible costs across 8 declared storm disasters, 2002–2020.
Disaster events
8
Total projects
67
Avg / disaster
$7.0M
Avg / project
$831K
Incident types on record
Hurricane
Declared disaster years · 2002–2020
2002
2005
2008
2012
2019
2020
Storm disasters · federal dollars obligated
DeclaredDisasterProjectsFederal obligated
Oct 2020DR-4570 Hurricane Delta9$16,030,841
Aug 2020DR-4559 Hurricane Laura9$8,875,557
Aug 2019DR-4458 Hurricane Barry2$1,244,076
Aug 2012DR-4080 Hurricane Isaac8$1,113,372
Sep 2008DR-1786 Hurricane Gustav11$12,548,457
Sep 2005DR-1607 Hurricane Rita21$7,901,913
Aug 2005DR-1603 Hurricane Katrina5$86,276
Oct 2002DR-1437 Hurricane Lili2$7,909,025
Total · 8 disasters67$55,709,518

Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation is an electric distribution cooperative in Louisiana. Across 8 federally declared storm disasters between 2002 and 2020, FEMA has obligated $55,709,518 in Public Assistance funding toward 67 recovery projects — an average of $7.0M per event. The incident types on record are hurricane.

Every one of those dollars began as field documentation — GPS-tagged damage, force-account labor and equipment logs, and photo evidence assembled into FEMA Project Worksheets. When that capture is rushed or incomplete, eligible costs go unclaimed. CoopRecover is built by someone who has assembled this documentation for large federally declared events: field crews photograph and evidence-grade damage on any device, costs roll up live against estimated eligible dollars, and PA-ready packages export mapped to your own templates. When the next storm hits Louisiana, Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation can capture more of what it's owed.

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Figures reflect FEMA Public Assistance funded-projects data (OpenFEMA), pulled from OpenFEMA October 6, 2026. Federal obligated is the federal share of eligible costs, not total project cost. CoopTools is not affiliated with FEMA or Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation. ← Back to all cooperatives